During the day, I teach in a local college; I play jazz on flute, piano and bass -- but more likely then not, every day I find myself in the kitchen creating and experimenting with flavors for tonight's dinner.
I don't cook with recipes. I do own cookbooks and watch an occasional chef show -- but I read them outside of the kitchen, only to help me learn a technique or visualize the flavors. Yes, that's what I call it -- visualizing. It may be bizarre -- but I will often say something like "this dish tastes too red, we need to darken the flavor".
When I do use cookbooks, I adopt the recipes. Not "adapt" as in "change to make use of what's available" but "adopt" as "make mine, take care of, make sure it doesn't wither and die".
Anyway -- for quite a while, my wife has been encouraging me to start a food blog and show off some of my dishes. I will show off not only things I cook, but things that my friends cook, as well as my favorite restaurants.
So -- join me, it's a tasty world out there!
